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Footnotes

1.

See the following articles in Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 2001: Frank Holt, “Alexander in the East,” and Rekha Morris, “Imagining Buddha.”

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Previously, Indian artists had only worked in perishable materials, according to Seleucis Nikator’s ambassador to India, Megasthenes (c. 350–290 B.C.); in a work titled Indika, Megasthenes wrote that India’s monsoon climate encouraged artists to think in terms of the temporary, rather than the permanent.

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Though most of Ashoka’s inscriptions are in Prakrit, some have been found in Greek, for example, in Kandahar, in present-day Afghanistan. Some Greek-speaking peoples still populated the northwestern provinces during the Mauryan Dynasty.